It was a bad Christmas and New Year for Mollywood. The theaters strike which happening for last several weeks affect the Malayalam film industry very badly. The strike made a loss of rupees 100+ crores to the Industry.

Meanwhile Youth Congress came against the theater strike and demands government to take necessary actions in the issue. They have also plan to ban all other language movie releases in Kerala.

It badly affects the Christmas releases as well as Malayalam biggie Pulimurugan’s business. Only Aamir Khan’s Dangal and Vishal’s Tamil movie got released in Christmas season. And also Aamir’s Dangal has done a decent business in absence of Malayalam movies.

Meanwhile Theater Association had a meeting with CM Pinaray yesterday at Thalasseri. And as per the Exhibitors Federation the strike will end up soon. Here you can read: